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why didn't the obama administration do that? they could have done the antiinjunction route. it doesn't hit until 2014. >> it's delaying the court looking at it. >> i have heard from both sides. i'm curious, why take the gamble right now in the heat of elections. it was easy to push off. >> there's two. it's an administration issue. they are starting to implement this more and more. the more the cloud was over, the harder to get the states to do something. >> but, i think the other part is they believe constitutionality they have an open and shut case. i don't think they think it is going to be closed. >> you think it's open and shut? they must have blinders on. really? >> it's weird. >> you are right. >> they look at scolea who made desessions. we can get someone like that. >> they think they are going to get roberts. >> they're not. >> the fun thing is i think we are seeing politics being thrown at the court. you hear all these conspiracy theories. my favorite is there's going to be two opinions. roberts can write an opinion that says this law stinks, this is a dangerous, y
why didn't the obama administration do that? they could have done the antiinjunction route. it doesn't hit until 2014. >> it's delaying the court looking at it. >> i have heard from both sides. i'm curious, why take the gamble right now in the heat of elections. it was easy to push off. >> there's two. it's an administration issue. they are starting to implement this more and more. the more the cloud was over, the harder to get the states to do something. >> but, i think...
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and some tough questions for the obama administration. but i think more importantly, there's going to be second guessing. and of course, republicans already overreaching in their second guessing. now is the time i, i would say, to follow eisenhower and other leaders' beliefs that politics sometimes should stop at the water's edge. but in this case, the obama administration has some really tough decisions to make about this dissident. >> yeah. i think so, joe. i think we have to wait and see how this plays out. i believe china has a common interest with us. i think they want this guy out, where he can't do any harm internally, and i think we want him out. and i think it will have a good resolution. >> so you think if we go ahead and get him out, work a deal, you don't think that will hurt our relationship with china in the long run? >> no. i think it's actually in their interest. i don't think they want him there as a symbol. >> yeah. maybe so. >>> all right, me >>> all right, mika. we have some business news coming up. >> yes, we do. but
and some tough questions for the obama administration. but i think more importantly, there's going to be second guessing. and of course, republicans already overreaching in their second guessing. now is the time i, i would say, to follow eisenhower and other leaders' beliefs that politics sometimes should stop at the water's edge. but in this case, the obama administration has some really tough decisions to make about this dissident. >> yeah. i think so, joe. i think we have to wait and...
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and there has been a reticence by the obama administration to truly get in there and build channels with opposition, with responsible actors in the opposition. we stand there are bad actors in the opposition like the islamists. tharp already getting arms and funding. they should be getting them what they need, training them, building them up. >> isn't president obama being a bit more aggressive now? >> they claim to be doing a little more. for the longest time they've said it's a bad idea and explicitly said funding the opposition is a bad idea. >> so you salute president obama. >> in your words. >> and our men and which in uniform. >> we should always salute our men and women in uniform. assad will fall. the question is how long will it take. >> do you agree with that? >> it's a question of when. >> and it wh it happens, will it be 14,000 dead, 18,000 dead, 25,000 dead? my experience in iraq -- >> how did that work out for you? >> the longer the sectarian violence plays out, the longer the post reconciliation process plays on. >> and it keeps going, iraq, by the way, is realing from its
and there has been a reticence by the obama administration to truly get in there and build channels with opposition, with responsible actors in the opposition. we stand there are bad actors in the opposition like the islamists. tharp already getting arms and funding. they should be getting them what they need, training them, building them up. >> isn't president obama being a bit more aggressive now? >> they claim to be doing a little more. for the longest time they've said it's a...
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republican presidential nominee mitt romney says he welcomes the obama administration's move to expel syrian diplomats, but he says that doesn't nearly go far enough. in a statement, romney writes in part, quote, president obama's lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis that has watched assad slater 10,000 individuals. we should increase pressure on russia to cease selling arms to the syrian government and to end its obstruction at the u.n. and we should work with partners to arm the opposition so they can defend themselves. so it jumps into the political arena. >> well, and we will talk later on exactly how mitt romney would tell vladimir putin to back off. i don't think that's going to happen. their last client state in the middle east. but richard haass, you look at the diplomats being expelled. you look at the horrific images coming out of syria. and i don't know if assad thinks he's his father and he can reduce one town to rubble and scare the rest of the countryside. but this has spread. this virus has spread. and it's all over his country. there is nothing -- t
republican presidential nominee mitt romney says he welcomes the obama administration's move to expel syrian diplomats, but he says that doesn't nearly go far enough. in a statement, romney writes in part, quote, president obama's lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis that has watched assad slater 10,000 individuals. we should increase pressure on russia to cease selling arms to the syrian government and to end its obstruction at the u.n. and we should work with partners to...
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so david, ryan lizza looks at what a second obama administration would look like in your magazine. >> with caveats throughout the administration that god knows he hasn't won it yet because this one tight election and will be to the end of november. >> what would it like if he did win? >> on the foreign policy side, which is obviously the side they want to highlight, they want to move from the engagements of south asia, from afghanistan, iraq and so on, to a much more forward-looking foreign policy having to do with china but also with issues like nuclear proliferation and the environment. we've all been to briefings where these have been sketched out very firmly, but that's not where the battleground of the election itself will be played, obviously. what's going to happen is you're going to see obama trying to sell a very, very low hand of cards in this election because he has to convince the american people of something that's very hard to do in an election. a recession like the one we experienced in 2008/2009 is never going to recover quickly and he has to emphasize the political ov
so david, ryan lizza looks at what a second obama administration would look like in your magazine. >> with caveats throughout the administration that god knows he hasn't won it yet because this one tight election and will be to the end of november. >> what would it like if he did win? >> on the foreign policy side, which is obviously the side they want to highlight, they want to move from the engagements of south asia, from afghanistan, iraq and so on, to a much more...
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. >> big decision made early in the obama administration to triple u.s. troop levels to take on the taliban, the united states became a central player, and afghanistan civil war. that was a mistake. it wasn't necessary. what we could do in afghanistan is similar to what we're doing in other places, use drone, special forces, do some training but we do not need to have tens of thousands of americans on the ground fighting a civil war. >> quickly, mika, also in syria, the united nations has decided they're going to just cut and run because it's turned into a civil war. >> yeah. the united nations peacekeeping forces say syrians have, quote, chosen the path of war and the last peace monitors in the country will leave by the end of the month. u.n. officials will meet to uds to discuss if any hope for diplomacy can be saved. in iraq, insurgent violence left 55 dead in a single day. since the beginning of august, more than 150 people have been killed across the country in violence largely blamed on the group of iraqi's civil ranch. >> syria has chosen the path
. >> big decision made early in the obama administration to triple u.s. troop levels to take on the taliban, the united states became a central player, and afghanistan civil war. that was a mistake. it wasn't necessary. what we could do in afghanistan is similar to what we're doing in other places, use drone, special forces, do some training but we do not need to have tens of thousands of americans on the ground fighting a civil war. >> quickly, mika, also in syria, the united...
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the obama administration says it will continue to squeeze the assad regime through sanctions and international pressure on other countries to join the coalition against the syrians. >> dan, i don't want to talk about my good friend gene when he's away, but i agree with him on an awful lot of things. i didn't quite understand, though, when gene said that assad's regime was strong and that somehow more stable than what we saw in libya six months ago. that's just -- >> assad is completely isolated. >> he's teetering. he's isolated. >> he's got the arab league against him. >> in fact, he is a minority in his own country and has been for years. this is a man who could fall in a couple of weeks. >> right. and it would be a huge strategic blow to iran. people forget, assad's regime is iran's only arab ally. assad's regime is iran's only ally on the port of the mediterranean. it's assad's only way to arm and fund hezbollah. it's a huge blow to tehran. so leaving aside the human catastrophe in syria which is real and horrifying, if you just look at from a strategic standpoint, america has such an inter
the obama administration says it will continue to squeeze the assad regime through sanctions and international pressure on other countries to join the coalition against the syrians. >> dan, i don't want to talk about my good friend gene when he's away, but i agree with him on an awful lot of things. i didn't quite understand, though, when gene said that assad's regime was strong and that somehow more stable than what we saw in libya six months ago. that's just -- >> assad is...
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"the new york times," the obama administration reportedly considering a variety of options to put an end to the violence in syria including sending direct aid and providing surface-to-air missiles to turkey. the decision to send missiles to turkey could come as early as next week according to "the times." >> "wall street journal," federal reserve likely to keep in place policy decisions made earlier this year in an effort to further boost the economy. in the fed ace latest report, says the economy grew at, quote, measured pace over the past two months, still the central bank hinted that -- i can't see. >> you've got to get those glasses on, donnie. poor guy. >> continuation of purchasing -- >> this is not a vanity moment, donnie. >> put the glasses on. you're not even on camera. oh, they're reading glasses. that was reading. >> that's why i'd never replace brian williams. >> yeah, it's just the glasses, really. "the detroit news," the auto industry has good reason to be optimistic despite the threat of the fiscal cliff. sales numbers expected to hit a four-year high when they're anno
"the new york times," the obama administration reportedly considering a variety of options to put an end to the violence in syria including sending direct aid and providing surface-to-air missiles to turkey. the decision to send missiles to turkey could come as early as next week according to "the times." >> "wall street journal," federal reserve likely to keep in place policy decisions made earlier this year in an effort to further boost the economy. in the...
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administration's four years was brought up. and mitt romney -- >> set it up. all right. >> -- botched it. >> the president was taking responsibility for what happened to four americans who lost their lives in benghazi. this definitely is one of those moments during this debate last night where republicans were probably screaming at the tv, looking his opponent in the eye, the president said he doesn't play politics on matters of national security. >> while we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, governor romney put out a press release. trying to make political points. and that's not how a commander in chief operates. you don't turn national security into a political issue. >> does the buck stop with your secretary of state as far as what went on here? >> secretary clinton has done an extraordinary job, but she works for me. i'm the president. and i'm always responsible. and that's why nobody's more interested in finding out exactly what happened than i do. the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the ro
administration's four years was brought up. and mitt romney -- >> set it up. all right. >> -- botched it. >> the president was taking responsibility for what happened to four americans who lost their lives in benghazi. this definitely is one of those moments during this debate last night where republicans were probably screaming at the tv, looking his opponent in the eye, the president said he doesn't play politics on matters of national security. >> while we were still...
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administration can essentially make the fund-raising battle a wash over time. that's a much different calculation than people thought six or nine months ago where they felt maybe obama could raise a billion dollars between his campaign and other campaigns run by his friends that used to work for him in the white house. so i think romney is obviously well-positioned in the short-term. you can't completely count out newt. and what newt needs is he needs the anti-establishment conservatives to officially rally around him. he would really need -- and in short order, sarah palin, rush limbaugh, other conservative leaders that don't like washington conservatives to basically all gather around and say he's our guy. he's the official alternative. >> jim, he's got sarah palin because you listen to her last night on fox. and, i mean, she's everything but a newt surrogate right now. not so with rush limbaugh, though. >> correct. >> and a lot of people have been mistakenly saying that rush has gotten behind newt. he's not going there. and i think newt gingrich did more to
administration can essentially make the fund-raising battle a wash over time. that's a much different calculation than people thought six or nine months ago where they felt maybe obama could raise a billion dollars between his campaign and other campaigns run by his friends that used to work for him in the white house. so i think romney is obviously well-positioned in the short-term. you can't completely count out newt. and what newt needs is he needs the anti-establishment conservatives to...
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. >> and the obama administration is saying what the united nations did unilaterally was a setback. do you agree with that? the body i represent is split. some people are in favor of the u.s. vote. the truth of it, the only thing that will work to deliver a palestinian state side-by-side with a secure state of israel is peace. as you can see we have a chance now. the president has been re-elected. i know he's deeply personally committed to this and we just have to regrip it, i'm afraid. >> what's gone wrong? >> it's partly because there's so much turmoil in the region right now. it's how each side views its own prospects. >> how would you characterize a credible negotiation given the fact as long as we've been alive there's been these problems that keep erupting and never, ever get solved? we've been trying for 20, 30 years. it was 50, 60 years before we got one that worked. and actually back in the year 2000, and again in 2008, you have no option in the end. the only thing that works is to make it credible if we shape the negotiations. give it some shape so that we can see this is
. >> and the obama administration is saying what the united nations did unilaterally was a setback. do you agree with that? the body i represent is split. some people are in favor of the u.s. vote. the truth of it, the only thing that will work to deliver a palestinian state side-by-side with a secure state of israel is peace. as you can see we have a chance now. the president has been re-elected. i know he's deeply personally committed to this and we just have to regrip it, i'm afraid....
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thank you. >> foreign policy adviser to the bush administration, now an adviser to the obama campaign, dan senor, he's in there. >> he was actually trying to work the baby. >> who are you all for? obama? >> you can hear them. romney, romney. >> i think you can have a little trouble with the crowd out there. you want to go that way. >> no i just met a guy in there whose t-shirt says i'm a republican because of mika. >> dan -- >> this guy named aaron. he says you radicalized him. he said he used to be centrist. >> i saw you working the 6-year-old. that's sad. she's all obama. >> she was talking about centrifuges. >> in florida, you know, we can get anybody to vote, okay? >> republicans are going to steal this election. a lot of 8-year-olds to vote. >> come on. pat buchanan won palm beach last time. >> exactly. >> so, dan, let's talk about tonight. obviously big foreign policy debate and a lot of questions, where is mitt romney going to be on a lot of different issues. let's start with iran, though. does mitt romney believe it's a good idea for us to have one-on-one talks with iran? >> h
thank you. >> foreign policy adviser to the bush administration, now an adviser to the obama campaign, dan senor, he's in there. >> he was actually trying to work the baby. >> who are you all for? obama? >> you can hear them. romney, romney. >> i think you can have a little trouble with the crowd out there. you want to go that way. >> no i just met a guy in there whose t-shirt says i'm a republican because of mika. >> dan -- >> this guy named...
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president obama has asserted the first executive privilege of his administration, setting off a fight with congressional republicans who are claiming election year overreach by the president. the white house moved to protect attorney general eric holder from a year-long investigation by shielding documents on the government's botched sting operation known as fast and furious. despite the president's move the house oversight committee voted along party lines to recommend attorney general holder be held in contempt for failing to produce documents showing when the administration knew there were problems with the operation. for weeks the department of justice and the house committee have been at odds over what information could be released. the white house argues that attorney general holder has been cooperative, offering up over 7,000 documents and testifying nine times. republicans say that the administration is trying to hide information, while democrats say this is just an election year political ploy. >> this is not about eric holder. it is about the department of justice and justic
president obama has asserted the first executive privilege of his administration, setting off a fight with congressional republicans who are claiming election year overreach by the president. the white house moved to protect attorney general eric holder from a year-long investigation by shielding documents on the government's botched sting operation known as fast and furious. despite the president's move the house oversight committee voted along party lines to recommend attorney general holder...
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. >> and this is the problem that not only romney but a number of the opponents of what president obama tried to do on the auto bailouts don't understand. there are really only two choices in the spring of 2009 and for that matter during president bush's administration fall of 2008. one is for the government to provide money under some set of circumstances and we debate those. the others is for those companies to close their doors, liquidate, lay off all the workers and go out of business. those are the only two choices. >> do they get any sense from bush administration officials how they felt on the auto bailout? >> yeah, i spent an enormous amount of time reporting for my book. i began my book with the bush period. and we saw it almost the same way. paulsen had a conversation with the white house. paulsen was in favor of the secretary of the treasury of helping the auto companies across the -- across this bridge. and somebody in the white house said to him well, you know, it's a difficult decision. and paulson said it's an unpleasant decision but it's not an difficult decision. >> and
. >> and this is the problem that not only romney but a number of the opponents of what president obama tried to do on the auto bailouts don't understand. there are really only two choices in the spring of 2009 and for that matter during president bush's administration fall of 2008. one is for the government to provide money under some set of circumstances and we debate those. the others is for those companies to close their doors, liquidate, lay off all the workers and go out of...
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obama came at a time mccain was latched to the bush administration. so many. '04, very similar to what we're facing now. really divided electorate, super polarized almost no undecideds on the main issue of the day. in '04 that was iraq. on the main issue of the day the incumbent is struggling. obama struggling on the economy. >> you don't win, you make sure your candidate loses. you go after john kerry and in this case you go after mitt romney. >> and what did they go primarily after john kerry on? military service. was his resume the legitimate thing. you go after perceived strength. mitt romney's perceived strength, bain. it's not that dissimilar. i would say i think that the economy is more of a driver issue -- iraq was a big issue? '04 but foreign policy never as big an issue as domestic policy. i think that makes obama's case harder. chuck is right, this is a classic in that poll and what we've seen, what obama is trying do, because i think they recognize that's their path to victory, their path to victory is not a positive campaign about what ba
obama came at a time mccain was latched to the bush administration. so many. '04, very similar to what we're facing now. really divided electorate, super polarized almost no undecideds on the main issue of the day. in '04 that was iraq. on the main issue of the day the incumbent is struggling. obama struggling on the economy. >> you don't win, you make sure your candidate loses. you go after john kerry and in this case you go after mitt romney. >> and what did they go primarily...
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this represents chicago-style politics at its worst and precisely what then senator obama claimed would be the wrong thing to do. president george w. bush over his eight years, 171 recess appointments, president clinton, 140 recess appointments, george h.w. bush, 77, for president obama, this is the 32nd congressional recess appointment. >>> up next, wes moore joins the conversation, also michael hastings out with a new book that expands on that explosive "rolling stones" piece that led to the firing of stanley mcchrystal. m al glawe took this last minute trip! you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? i have the hotels.com app so we can get a great deal even at the last minute. ah, well played sir. get the app. hotels.com. >>> welcome back to "morning joe." joining us now, the united states army veteran, best-selling author, our good friend wes moore, and michael hastings. michael's article on afghanistan in june of 2010 you'll remember made huge headlines and ultimately led to the firing of general stanley mcchrystal. michael's expanded on that piece wit
this represents chicago-style politics at its worst and precisely what then senator obama claimed would be the wrong thing to do. president george w. bush over his eight years, 171 recess appointments, president clinton, 140 recess appointments, george h.w. bush, 77, for president obama, this is the 32nd congressional recess appointment. >>> up next, wes moore joins the conversation, also michael hastings out with a new book that expands on that explosive "rolling stones"...
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president obama is expected to announce that vice president biden will spearhead his administration's response to the newtown shooting. the president is not expected to go into detail on policy decisions. the national rifle association has broken its silence issuing a statement that reads, in part, this -- the nra is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. >> i can stop for a second there? if progressives, if moderates, if conservatives that are concerned about these magazine clips and assault weapons, if they want to feel self-righteous and scream and yell and -- they can do it and we won't get a deal. this is just like the fiscal cliff. in the end, it is just like what we saw -- in "lincoln," the 13th amendment. you know, if the nra comes out and says something like that, instead of everybody, oh, now you say it now that blood's on your -- you know what? guess what? feel self-righteous. you can save lives or feel self-righteous. beat your chest like jim and tammy faye baker. if that's how you sleep at night. but i tell you what, in the
president obama is expected to announce that vice president biden will spearhead his administration's response to the newtown shooting. the president is not expected to go into detail on policy decisions. the national rifle association has broken its silence issuing a statement that reads, in part, this -- the nra is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. >> i can stop for a second there? if progressives, if moderates, if conservatives that...
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let's just project forward and let's just say theoretically that president obama wins re-election. forecast the next six months after that from what you know of this administration and what might happen. >> well -- >> republican leadership that you're familiar with. >> obviously, you don't know, but he is tuned into his own ambivalences. and in the reporting on this, it's very clear he realizes we face a problem that is not going to go away, that he's got to address. and there are documents that are floating around that i got and notes of meetings, and you see, for instance, on medicare. he's now campaigning on we're not going to cut medicare. and there are documents where last year he was saying oh, yeah, we have to cut it $250 billion over ten years. >> wait. so you've got a document where barack obama is saying we've got to cut medicare $250 billion, which i think is responsible. but his campaign team is going out there every day sayingatch out. we're not going to cut medicare, but mitt romney is. >> yeah. i mean, it's not just his campaign team. it's the president and himself.
let's just project forward and let's just say theoretically that president obama wins re-election. forecast the next six months after that from what you know of this administration and what might happen. >> well -- >> republican leadership that you're familiar with. >> obviously, you don't know, but he is tuned into his own ambivalences. and in the reporting on this, it's very clear he realizes we face a problem that is not going to go away, that he's got to address. and there...